Lesions of the perirhinal cortex interfere with conditioned excitation but not with conditioned inhibition of fear

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 476-486

  Falls, William A ^a   Bakken, Karl T ^b   Heldt, Scott A ^b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEAR; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0030915380     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.3.476     Document Type: Article

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